City appropriations for 1918 in Columbus included these allowances for public health work: Administration $5,274.60, laboratory $4,512.42, sanitary $13,366, tenement inspection $2,019.85, food inspection $17,801.59, quarantine $1,285.50, medical inspection $5,456, district physicians $3,600.

The board of health has called upon the city council for an additional food inspection appropriation. Unless the allowance is increased, the board declares, four meat inspectors will have to be dropped and meat inspection practically abandoned, confining the activities of the bureau to milk inspection. The effect of this policy, the health board predicts, would be to make Columbus a dumping a dumping ground for diseased meat.

to the board. Columbus' only woman health board member, Miss Jennie L. Tuttle, who has served for several months filling out an unexpired term, has been given a regular four-year appointment, dating from February 1.

The State Department of Health has ordered discontinuance of pollution of the Chagrin River at Chagrin Falls. The town of Willoughby, on the river below Chagrin Falls, is contemplating the use of the stream as a source of water supply.

A campaign to raise $5,000 for the support of public health nursing work was carried out in Mansfield in February.

Columbus must find some new method by which to dispose of its sewage, according to the annual report of Waterworks Chemist C. B. Hoover for 1917. Hoover said that the watersheds of the Scioto River, the Olentangy River and Alum Creek are inadequate to care for the wastes which are left even after treatment of the sewage at the disposal plant. The total daily volume of the city's sewage averages 20,000,000 gallons and during 44 per cent of the time between July and December, 1917, no water whatever flowed over the crest of the storage dam above the city.

Pumping of water into Lima's new billion-gallon storage reservoir was scheduled to start March 1. Enough of the reservoir to hold

half its ultimate capacity was completed before cold weather forced a suspension of work.

Nurses of the Dayton Visiting Nurses' Association made 49,805 visits during 1917. They attended to 7,578 new patients and cared for 540 baby cases. They treated 178 new cases of tuberculosis and 1,001 old cases. Financial needs of the

organization for next year are estimated at $10,293.

Patients treated by the twentytwo nurses of the Toledo District Nurse Association in 1917 numbered 9,093. The total of visits was 68, 263. The association cared for 2,538 babies and distributed 5,810 quarts of milk for use of babies.

Akron's Health Problem "No city in the United States has a greater problem in health conservation than Akron, where the enormous transient population and the inadequate housing facilities present extraordinary opportunities for disease," said Dr. C. T. Nesbitt, Akron health commissioner, in a recent address.

Dr. Nesbitt said that Akron had three natural health advantagegood topography, good climate and good water but that the city also had handicaps, among which he named: a one-third efficient sewer system, inadequate methods of garbage collection and disposal, and insufficient control of food and milk inspection.

The appropriation ordinance in Akron for the first six months of 1918 carried heavier grants for health work than the city had expended in the past. The total amount was $40,371.72. It will allow considerable extensions in work, which the new commissioner now has under way.

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Chlorine Treatment Retained After considerable discussion, Springfield has decided to continue.

the use of chlorine in disinfecting the city's water supply. Objection was made to the chlorine treatment on the ground that it gave a bad taste to the water. As a result there was for a time considerable

leaning among city officials toward installing the violet-ray system of disinfection. Investigation, however, convinced City Manager C. E. Ashburner and other officials that the chlorine process was preferable.

The violet-ray system of purification is in a more or less experimental stage in this country. It is used only in a few scattered instances and these are in small cities whose water consumption is relatively low. The principal objection to the process is its high cost as compared to chlorine treatment.

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Anti-Typhoid Treatment's Value

The North Carolina State Board of Health in a recent announcement says that it is encouraged to continue the work of typhoid prevention through the reductions that have been made in the state's death rate from typhoid fever within the last three years · the time the work has been done by the board. While less than 10 per cent of the